In the Faculty:

Teaching activities
    Voice studies
    Director, Musical Theatre Ensemble

In the Community:
  Co-creator of Dry Cold Productions - a music theatre company dedicated
  to presenting premieres of cutting edge,modern musical theatre works.
  Former Vice President and Manitoba Councillor of the Canadian Actors
  Equity Association

Contact:
Fletcher_Hickerson@shaw.ca

Professional Bio:

Donna Fletcher is an accomplished Singer, Actor, and Concert Performer with a wide range of national experience in theatre, musical theatre and symphonic work. Proud of her prairie roots, Donna received her early training in Winnipeg and earned a Bachelor of Music in Performance from the University of Manitoba, a diploma in Music Theatre from The Banff Centre for the Arts and a Master of Music in Performance from the University of Toronto.

Donna has performed in principle roles with the Charlottetown Festival, the Drayton Festival, Rainbow Stage, Theatre Calgary, Stage West Calgary, the Belfry Theatre, the National Arts Centre, MTC, PTE, MTYP, Dry Cold Productions, Winnipeg Studio Theatre, Persephone Theatre, and Manitoba Opera.

Always seeking new challenges, Donna co-created Dry Cold Productions and has been directing and assistant directing across the country. Donna directed the Winnipeg premieres of the musicals Nine, The Light in the Piazza and Sweeney Todd for Dry Cold Productions.  Most notably, Donna was the assistant director for the world premiere of the John Estacio/John Murrell Canadian opera Filumena (Calgary Opera/Banff Centre), Calgary Opera's Sweeney Todd, Opera Ontario's Susannah,Top Girls at the MTC Warehouse and Madama Butterfly, The Magic Flute and Lucia di Lammermoor for Manitoba Opera.

In the summer of 2012, Donna was inducted to the Rainbow Stage Wall of Fame and became the first Winnipeg female Director to helm a production (Annie) at the theatre.

Donna is part of the vocal faculty and directs the Musical Theatre Ensemble at the University of Manitoba Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music.  She is actively teaching, coaching, adjudicating and conducting workshops across the country and, in addition to her teaching duties at the University of Manitoba, Donna teaches at the Theatre Department at the University of Winnipeg.